Bolton moves to online pharmacy system
Actor Dave Spikey helps launch Bolton’s new robotic dispensing system. The Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, has upgraded its electronic prescribing system to the Ascribe Web Pharmacy system, and invested in a new robotic dispensing system. To be delivered over three months, the system was launched by Phoenix Nights actor and Bolton […]
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NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’
NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a health service based on plurality and far more locally-based decision making by clinicians and patients. Speaking at the World Healthcare Congress in Berlin on Monday Nicholson explained why the introuduction of the NHS National Programme for […]
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Insurance companies to pay doctors for smartcards
After a year of negotiations, German health insurance companies have agreed to pay doctors for the smartcard readers and software upgrades that the new German healthcare smartcards necessitate. The German ministry of health has recently increased its pressure on insurance companies and doctors, following an announcement that the smartcard rollout will start later this year. […]
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Praise for departed head of CfH
With the news of Richard Granger’s departure as head of Connecting for Health, a number of the key individuals he has worked with offered their praise. The DH made clear that it will not replace him directly but with a DH CIO and CfH director of programme and systems delivery: “Matthew Swindells will act as […]
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Cerner to integrate BNF into Millennium
Cerner is to integrate the British National Formulary’s (BNF) medicines information with the Cerner Millennium software for hospital systems in the UK. Millennium is the software selected for delivery to NHS hospitals in London and the South of England under the NHS IT programme. Work is underway to deliver Cerner Millennium users with full access […]
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Two pharmacy PHR projects launched in Germany
Two new pilots are underway to offer pharmacy personal health records (PHRs) in Germany. Both are based on a PHR including details of current medication and offer patients the potential to offer prescription ordering online. In the first of the two projects e-health vendor CompuGroup is partnering with the pioneering Dutch mail-order pharmacy DocMorris to […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 11.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 11 January 2008. North Yorkshire PCT use digital pen and paper for SAP Anoto partner Ubisys is to roll out digital pen and paper technology to 150 North Yorkshire Adult and Community services staff at North Yorkshire and York PCT to improve their procedures for […]
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BMA to attempt to control internet drug sales
The British Medical Association (BMA) is to work with the UK government and the World Health Organisation to control internet sales of medicines. Concerns have been raised by the UN and the World Health Organisation that some drugs sold over the Internet are counterfeit and potentially harmful. Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of BMA Council, said […]
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Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs
Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of IT developments managed to attract more media attention than ever. But it was not all about cards: vendors of electronic patient records have turned surprisingly optimistic too. And there was a real rising star: the […]
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Six hospital connect on oncology with Varian
Six hospitals in the north of England have begun implementing medical oncology software from Varian Medical to help them function as one clinical network. The oncology network includes hospitals in Lancashire and Cumbria, which are rolling out Aria Medical Oncology software to fully integrate the prescribing, preparation, dispensing and administration of drugs for treating cancer. […]
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